disciplinary

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/, [ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnɹi]
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.ə.pləˌnɛɹi/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsəplənəɹi/

Adjective

disciplinary (comparative more disciplinary, superlative most disciplinary)

1. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

   Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.

2. For the purpose of imposing punishment.

   The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.

3. Of or relating to an academic field of study.

   We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.

   • 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 November 2013, page 60:

     Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

Derived terms

• antidisciplinary
• bidisciplinary
• crossdisciplinary
• cross-disciplinary
• disciplinarian
• disciplinarily
• disciplinarity
• disciplinary board
• disciplinary inquiry
• disciplinary literacy
• disciplinary loaf
• interdisciplinary
• intradisciplinary
• monodisciplinary
• multidisciplinary
• nondisciplinary
• pluridisciplinary
• subdisciplinary
• transdisciplinary
• undisciplinary
• unidisciplinary

Translations

having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline

• Armenian: կարգապահական (hy) (kargapahakan)
• Catalan: disciplinari
• Finnish: kuri-, kurinpito-, kurinpidollinen
• German: disziplinarisch (de)
• Hungarian: fegyelmező (hu), fegyelmezési
• Indonesian: disipliner
• Irish: smachtaithe
• Latin: disciplīnārius
• Malayalam: അച്ചടക്ക (accaṭakka)
• Russian: дисциплинарный (ru) (disciplinarnyj)
• Spanish: disciplinario (es)
• Welsh: disgyblaethol

for the purpose of imposing punishment

• Armenian: կարգապահական (hy) (kargapahakan)
• Catalan: disciplinari
• Czech: kázeňský (cs)
• Dutch: tuchtrechtelijk (nl), disciplinair (nl)
• Finnish: kuri-, kurinpito-, kurinpidollinen
• French: disciplinaire (fr)
• German: disziplinarisch (de), Disziplinar-
• Hebrew: משמעתי (mishma'aty)
• Hungarian: fegyelmi (hu), fegyelmező (hu)
• Indonesian: disipliner
• Polish: dyscyplinarny (pl)
• Russian: дисциплинарный (ru) (disciplinarnyj)
• Spanish: disciplinario (es)
• Swedish: disciplinär (sv)

of or relating to an academic field of study

• Armenian: գիտակարգային (gitakargayin)
• Finnish: disiplinaarinen
• German: fachlich (de), fachbezogen
• Hungarian: szakmai (hu), szakirányú (hu)

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• Danish: ^{(please verify)} disciplinær

Noun

disciplinary (plural disciplinaries)

1. A disciplinary action.
2. A disciplinary report.
   • 1988 February 21, Jery Ragland, “A Hell Of An Appeal”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 31, page 5:

     During my 3 weeks upstairs they wrote 4 disciplinaries on me: one for yankng my handcuffs away from an officer who was hurting me by twisting them, one for throwing a roll of toilet paper in the hall, and two verbal "assaults".

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “disciplinary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.